Wednesday, May 3, 2017

Pirates may have cracked the code to 4K UHD torrents

Someone may have finally cracked a form of DVD encryption believed to be impenetrable. Potentially, this could mean it’s now possible to download 4K Blu-Ray movies online, though you shouldn’t get too excited yet. According to TorrentFreak, an allegedly cracked copy of The Smurfs 2 — why that one, of all films, is a mystery — surfaced on HD Bit Torrent community UltraHDClub. There are no other details at the moment. 4K Blu-Ray films are protected with Advanced Access Content System (AACS) 2.0, an encryption which has yet to be cracked. And I say “has yet” because I’m taking this news with a boulder-sized grain…